MorderVonAllem submitted an incredibly cool article about the integrated circuitry and set design of Star Trek. If you are into that sort of thing, you're going to really like this one. It says "There are a lot of similarities between Apple's iPad and the mobile bookkeeping devices—known as PADDs—used in the Star Trek universe. Ars spoke to designers Michael Okuda, Denise Okuda, and Doug Drexler to find out the considering cap and animus behind the PADD and how closely the iPad represents a real-life personification of that dream."